Ivan Petrovsky

Ivan Petrovsky (died 7 February 1941) was a Russian counter-revolutionary who was responsible for riots and attacks against the Soviet government in the city of Rostov in 1941. He was executed by a Soviet sniper alongside one of his collaborators at a Rostov cafe in 1941.

Biography
Ivan Petrovsky was an old agent of the Red Army who had plotted to destabilize Russia and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union by 1941, starting riots in the streets with his counter-revolutionary supporters and executing assassinations and terrorist attacks. On 7 February 1941, he decided to meet with one of his men at a cafe in Rostov on the Don River to give him some documents, and a Soviet sniper was sent to assassinate him and his partner. Petrovsky's partner was killed as he waited outside of the cafe, and Petrovsky was shot in the leg and then the stomach as he tried to enter the cafe.